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wind, and the elearing their water. The friends and good neighbours went wi' John to the Kirk, where Maggy ehanced to meet him, and was married by the minister. The twa companies joined the gither, and came hame in a crowd; and at every change-house they ehaneed to pass by, Providence stopt their proeeeding with full stoups, bottles, and glasses, drinking their healths, wishing them joy, ten girls and a boy. Jockey seeing so many wishing well to his health, eoupt up what he got for to augment his health, and gar him live long, whieh afterwards couped him up, and proved detrimental to the same.
So hame they came to the dinner, where his mither presenting to them a piping het haggis, made of the creesh of the black boul horned ewe, boiled in the meikle pot, mixt with bear-meal, onions, spiee, and mint. This haggis being supt warm, the foaming swats and spice in the liquor set John's belly a-bizzing like a working fat; and he playing het-fit to the fiddler, was suddenly seized with a bocking and rebounding, whieh gave his dinner sueh a backward ca', that he lost a' but the girt bits, which he scythed thro' his teeth. His mither cried to spenee him, and bed him with the bride. His breeks being filed, they washed both his hips and laid him in his bed. Pale and ghostly was his face, and closed were
